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Updated: May 16, 2025
From distant Mexican settlements came natives in ramshackle wagons and driving half-wild ponies. Out of the hills came sheep-herders and prospectors. The word of big wages ran everywhere. The drive was on.
But the kea is also a wretched pest, for it has learned how to kill sheep since the sheep-herders came to New Zealand. The kea darts out of the air, fastens its talons in the side of the sheep, and quickly makes a gaping hole into the animal's vitals. Thousands of sheep are thus killed every year.
Indeed, so utterly miserable was she that the exquisite relief of sitting down, of a cessation of movement, of a release from that infernal perpetual-trotting horse, seemed only a mockery. It could not be true that the time had come for rest. Evidently this place had been a camp site for hunters or sheep-herders, for there were remains of a fire.
But the other players, his fellow sheep-herders, fell away from Hilliard dangerously. "No shootin'," said the giant harshly. "No shoot-in' in The Aura. It ain't allowed." "No callin' names either," growled the prisoner. "Me and my friends would like to settle with the youthful stranger." "Settle with him, then, but somewheres else. No fightin' in The Aura."
"I don't see how it can possibly concern you whether I go anywhere or not." "It does, though. I'm a lot public-spirited. I hate to see taxes go up, and every lunatic that goes to the asylum costs the State just that much more. I don't know an easier recipe for going crazy than just to stay off alone and think. It's a fright the way it gets sheep-herders, and such." "I'm such, I suppose!"
"I don't know, I'm sure," said the schoolma'am, calmly facing the stare. "If you mean a dog, he doesn't own one, I believe. Cowboys don't seem to take to dogs; they're afraid they might be mistaken for sheep-herders, perhaps and that would be a disgrace." Miss Forsyth leaned back and her eyes, half closed as they were, saw Weary away down by the door. "No, I didn't mean a dog.
"That would be the final, tragic touch," she thought, "to have him come down of a plague from nursing one of Sam Gregg's sheep-herders." Aloud she said: "His resignation comes just in time, doesn't it? He can now be sick without loss to the service." Dalton answered her. "The Supervisor has not accepted his resignation. On the contrary, I shall offer him a higher position.
She laughed surrenderingly, and came and sat down upon the porch near him, and tapped a slipper toe nervously upon the soft, green sod. "Time! Yes " She threw back her head and smiled at him brightly and appealingly, it seemed to Kent. "You remember what you told me once about sheep-herders and such going crazy out here? The such is sometimes ready to agree with you."
He could not forget that in her veins flowed some of the very best of Spanish blood, and he considered her altogether too good for the common sheep-herders and wood-cutters who aspired to woo her. These he summarily warned away, and brought his big Winchester rifle into the argument whenever it became warm.
And that's the reason we generally think it is a bear that does the killing, when in reality it is a mountain lion who has had his fill and left the remains for other predatory animals, while he has gone off to hunt for a fresh kill." Occasionally sheep-herders report considerable devastations from mountain-lions and bear to the Forest Rangers.
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